[3] The Beverly station, a low wooden structure, was located at the north end of the Essex Bridge in the town's developed southern tip.

[4][7] In 1890, a local citizens group hired Charles Eliot to design improvements to the station grounds.

The work was paid for by the private group, as the railroad refused to contribute other than donating some labor and materials.

[7] The ticket office closed in 1965 with passenger traffic in free fall as the newly formed MBTA began to subsidize service to Beverly.

[10] The modern station facilities, located adjacent to the depot building, consist of two platforms serving the line's two tracks.

[11] In April 2007, the MBTA announced plans to expand the parking lot and replace the mini-high platforms, with a garage to be added later.

[14] As part of environmental mitigation for increased urban auto traffic enabled by the Big Dig, the state was required to add 1,000 parking spaces to MBTA stations by the end of 2011.

Garages at Salem and Beverly were originally to fill this requirement, but when it became clear that neither would be finished in 2011, additional parking at Wonderland, Woodland, Savin Hill, and the Quincy ferry terminal were used to satisfy it.

A retaining wall required additional reinforcement, unusually cold winter temperatures prevented contractors from pouring concrete, and contaminated soil had to be unexpectedly brought to out-of-state disposal locations when in-state facilities closed.

[22] On April 3, 2017, the pedestrian bridge linking the garage and station was damaged by an oversized load on a flatbed truck.